| Description |
208 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
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age Children |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-203) and index. |
| Summary |
Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of child workers. |
| Contents |
Introduction: "Shall We Turn Out?" Harriet Hanson and the Spinning-Room Strikers -- "A Devil in Petticoats" Young Mill Workers Rebel Lowell, Massachusetts (1836) -- "Stick Together and We'll Win" Messenger, Bootblack, and Newsie Strike Fever New York City (1899) -- "Dear God, Will It Ever Be Different?" Pauline Newman and the New York City Rent Strike (1907) -- "I'll Be a Johnny Mitchell Man" The Anthracite Coal Strikes Pennsylvania (1897, 1900, and 1902) -- "We Ask You, Mr. President" Mother Jones and Her Industrial Army Philadelphia (1903) -- "Build Up Your Union" Agnes Nestor and the Garment Workers' Strike Chicago (1897), New York City, and Philadelphia (1909-1910) -- "They Understood the Stomach Language" The Lawrence Strike (1912) -- "Now I Have a Past" The National Child Labor Committee (1904) -- A Timeline of Federal Child Labor Laws. |
| Awards |
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2000. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer. |
| Subject |
Strikes and lockouts -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Strikes and lockouts. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Child labor -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Child labor. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Juvenile works.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Kids on strike! Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999 (OCoLC)607462447 |
| ISBN |
0395888921 |
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9780395888926 |
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0618369236 (paperback) |
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9780618369232 (paperback) |
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1439579024 (Paw Prints) |
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9781439579022 (Paw Prints) |
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